Portland

Pros: No shortage of fun things to do for both the young and old.
Cons: well, Portland is known for rain!

My kids and I do a lot of traveling together and I've quickly learned that my favorite destinations are not necessarily my kid's favorites. Fortunately, we all agree that Portland is a kid-friendly city with lots of places to keep the young and the ...

Pros: Location, laid-back attitude, and weather (for half the year, anyway).
Cons: Self-congratulatory, insular, and increasingly prone to all the traditional big-city flaws.

Not in my backyard. Face it: we all suffer from it. Even the most idealistic campus crusader for, I dunno, Guatemalan baby seals, has it. Regardless of how we might stump for this or that political or social cause, at the end of the day, when ...

Pros: Friendly People, Big City Attractions, Near The Oregon Coast
Cons: Bad Drivers, Portland Police, Dirty Rivers

I've lived in the Northwest for most of my life, I grew up in Spokane, WA and I've lived in the Vancouver, WA/Portland, OR area for about 6 years now. I spend about 60% of my free time in Portland even though I live across the Columbia River in ...

Pros: There are no good points to Portland, Oregon. Please stay away. Unless you are visiting!
Cons: Increased traffic due to people coming to visit and MOVING HERE!

I am a Portland, Oregon NATIVE. I have webbed feet, I don't tan - I rust; I call rain "liquid sunshine" and still think it's cute; I take lush green grass for granted and rainbows barely thrill me; I think that driving a mere 1.5 hours to the beach,...

Pros: Wide variety of excellent offerings;
Cons: Hard to catch the waitperson's attention

What do you call a fish with no eyes? This question (and several others) were part of a Halibut Brain Food Quiz that several hundred Salty's Restaurant patrons recently played. Although only two guests were lucky winners, the others had...

Pros: A spectacular success in urban planning in the 1970s.
Cons: All this livability can be very sedating ...

Portland and I go way back. I lived there from 1969 (age 7) to 1980 (off to college at 18). I've lived there again since 1994, a much more complacent time. Now I sit in a cafe in San Francisco, wondering how ready I am to live in Portland again....

Pros: Beautiful gardens in a serene setting with fabulous vistas of Portland and Mount Hood.
Cons: Can't think of any!

Portland, OR has 2 gardens that are across the street from one another and are definitely worth a visit. I try to get there every time I am in Portland-and that has been a lot of visits over the years! I am always pleased that I made the time for these...

Pros: Sit down joints that range from fresh and homemade to greasy spoon goodness.
Cons: Need a fix of Fatburger or In & Out? Keep driving.

I moved to Portland from a city that you could walk into any bar at any time of the day or night and find a great tasting burger with fries for under 5 bucks. Portland, still torn between it's need to be all things to all people, and the vegan capital ...

Pros: Sedate, but interesting. Diverse set of attractions. Friendly people.
Cons: Rain. Ubiquitous coffee houses, fleece, and slackers/hipsters. Sprawl and overpopulation.

I love my hometown, so as Tom McCall (former Oregon governor) once said, "Welcome to Oregon, come back soon." Portland has experienced major growing pains from a rapid influx of Californians over the past several years. Our infrastructure is crumbling,...

Pros: Clean, well-managed city. Charming downtown and wonderfully pretty surroundings. Friendly, easy-going people.
Cons: It may rain... but so what?? At least you don't have to shovel it...

I have to be honest. Before being transferred to Portland a few years ago, there was not much I knew about the city. As soon as I moved there, I fell completely in love with the city and with the area around it. I have lived and traveled all over the...

Pros: Definitely "the city that works"; Near to recreational parks/Columbia River
Cons: Winter attractions greatly diminished

I arrived in Portland, OR by the Nationwide Greyhound Bus Lines at 4:30 am in the morning. Crazy it may sound, I had no other choice because of the limited schedules of attractions in the city/region. Inititally, my sister and I plan to take a cab (which...

Pros: Half the draft beer served in Portland is craft brewed.
Cons: It's great beer, but it all tastes roughly the same.

Portland is a beer-soaked city.

I mean that in a most congratulatory way. I think it's fabulous that 1 of every 2 draft beers poured in Portland are microbrews. Every bar I went to had at least three great micros on tap. The airport bar...

Pros: Safety; coziness; culture; cuisine; natural setting
Cons: Rainy season; wish it was closer to the ocean.

Portland could have been called Boston. Apparently, the two pioneers, one from Boston, the other one ...

Pros: Close to almost anything you could ever dream of doing
Cons: rain can be a drag

When I took the challenge to write about my favorite US city, the first thing that came to mind was all the things I dislike about places I’ve visited. I guess that should be fodder for many other Epinions. I struggled to come up with which US city is...

Pros: Progressive, forward thinking, willing to risk big to win big.
Cons: Hasn't anyone here ever read 1984?

Last weekend my wife and I went to Portland Oregon for the first time. We’ve lived in Seattle for about 3 years and you’d think that we would have made it to Portland, a mere 3 hours away, before now. Nope. Just too damn lazy.

I think a...